Overman, William

Cognitive sex differences among adults have been consistently acknowledged in the scientific literature. Males typically perform better than females on various tests of spatial abilities. Females typically perform better than males on tests of fine...

Cognitive sex differences have consistently been found in adulthood, with males
excelling on visual-spatial tasks and females excelling on manual dexterity tasks.
Although these differences are found in adulthood, they rarely exist before adolescen...

The purpose of this study was to determine if active deliberation of either Personal
Moral (PM) dilemmas or Impersonal Moral (IM) dilemmas would have an effect on
performance during the Iowa Card Task (ICT), a measure of decision-making. Males
typ...

Decision-making research using the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) has uncovered gender
differences in performance. Men’s scores on the IGT are significantly higher than women’s
scores. Previous research established that reading Personal Moral dilemmas du...

In normal populations, males typically perform better than
females on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). Previous studies have
shown that deliberation of moral dilemmas during the IGT
significantly improves the performance of females to the level
of m...

With the AIDS and STD epidemic on the rise, the concern for young people?s risky
behavior in sexual situations becomes a crucial issue. Numerous studies have found that alcohol
influences risky sexual behavior, but other factors seem to play a role...